>>533616083
It bothers me because there's no reason to make it like this but for the sake of visual distinction. The Shock Rifle isn't so bloated for the barrel, and the gigantic size box notch doesn't fit the Covenant aesthetic at all but arbitrarily has to be there because the Shock Rifle had it. If the intent is to make it some heavy weapon, whatever, but it's.. literally just the Covenant Carbine but fucking ugly because of its baseline animations.